Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
Dove with Instructor John and his Basic Open Water class.*<\/strong><\/p>\n In With: 3100 psi This is the make-up dive today.<\/p>\n John told me this was going to be a short day because “they only have one chance to get through the surf.”<\/p>\n I was the first one through the surf zone.<\/p>\n Pancho called it quits almost as soon as he hit the water.<\/p>\n The divers as I remember them – Me, John, Spike, Mohammed, Gomez, Morticia, Suzuki and her husband Arrogant Asshole.<\/p>\n I had to swim after Morticia as she was heading towards Palos Verdes. <\/p>\n She was exhausted when she got out and was breathing through her regulator to stay comfortable.<\/p>\n Apparently Suzuki made it out on her own.<\/p>\n I descended first, the rest followed fairly quickly. <\/p>\n Morticia had breathed her tank down to 1500 psi and a few other students weren’t far behind on air.<\/p>\n Suzuki’s husband, Arrogant Asshole, told her not to swim backwards because “your pipe will be in the water;” I guess Mr. Expert Diver doesn’t know what to call a snorkel.<\/p>\n Vis was pretty good – an instructor said the vis was only 5 feet, but it ended up being 15 feet and very clear; the instructor must have been on crack.<\/p>\n John was so warm he took his hood off underwater and accidentally dropped his mask. <\/p>\n Luckily, the vis was good enough so he could find it.<\/p>\n We followed John to about 50 feet over the shelf – he checked Morticia’s air and we all turned around.<\/p>\n I was the first one ashore.<\/p>\n Suzuki and her Arrogant Asshole husband started ashore; Suzuki actually got turned around and started heading back out until a wave hit her.<\/p>\n Suzuki washed up and was so tired that she couldn’t crawl; she yelled that the “stuff” was too heavy.<\/p>\n Someone from another class came over and helped us take off her gear.<\/p>\n After talking with Pancho extensively, the only reason that he is taking SCUBA lessons is to clean underneath his boss’ newly purchased boat; his boss was paying for the lessons.<\/p>\n John advised Pancho, “If your boss is requiring you to take SCUBA lessons to clean his boat, I would find another boss.”<\/p>\n I had a boss at one time that; had he owned a boat, he probably would have put me through something similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran’s Park, Redondo Beach, CA Dove with Instructor John and his Basic Open Water class.* In With: 3100 psi Out With: 2100 psi Max depth: 50 feet I believe Waves: 2-5 foot swells, mellow Visibility: 15 feet and clear Water Temperature: Cool – 69 degrees on the surface, 57 degrees at depth Total Bottom Time: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOut With: 2100 psi
\nMax depth: 50 feet I believe
\nWaves: 2-5 foot swells, mellow
\nVisibility: 15 feet and clear
\nWater Temperature: Cool – 69 degrees on the surface, 57 degrees at depth
\nTotal Bottom Time: About 20 minutes
\n*Note: Student names have been changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n